US court rejects bid to obtain evidence from Tinubu, DCI group in FOIA case

A United States national tribunal has rejected Aaron Greenspan’s petition to get grounds from President Bola Tinubu and DCI Group successful an ongoing Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, case.

The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled connected October 30, 2026, that Greenspan’s projected find implicit alleged cyberattacks connected his website was not sufficiently applicable to the FOIA quality involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA.

The tribunal besides rejected a petition by Karl Von Batten, who is not a enactment to the case, to record an amicus curiae brief.

It arsenic denied Greenspan’s petition for judicial announcement and his question for summary judgment.

Reacting to the ruling, lawyer Christopher W. Carmichael said the determination made wide that the FOIA lawsuit could not beryllium utilized to prosecute issues extracurricular the ineligible questions earlier the court.

“The Court’s determination makes wide that this Freedom of Information Act proceeding cannot beryllium utilized to prosecute find unrelated to the ineligible questions earlier it,” Carmichael said.

Attorney Oluwole Afolabi besides confirmed that the tribunal had denied Greenspan’s question for summary judgement and rejected the petition to present an amicus...